#i remember its shape but not the precise letters or pronunciation

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since people mentioned it tho it IS kind of weird how delkiras crest became a sort of deus ex machina or something like that

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This is a small analysis into graphic design in K-Pop by a graphic design major, this post focuses on logos! Analysis is under the cut, long-ish post ahead! :D

𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐎 - 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧:

Aespa’s logo is that of a fourth generation group, and their modern digital concept reflects in the logo. The fashionable metallic fill on the typography shows the modernity of the logo, and the designer/s definitely knew what is currently trending.

Personally, I believe the interlocking ‘a’ and ‘e’ are positioned to create the silahouette of a butterfly, a common motif featured in the debut music video ‘Black Mamba.’ I believe Aespa’s main themes are that of the digital age, breaking free from the mold, and, debatably, an air of femininity; these themes all come together to create the motif of a butterfly. The butterfly often represents change, or remaking yourself, that of metamorphosis; and so the butterfly is a good analogy for breaking free from the mold, of being different from the rest. The butterfly can also represent femininity, or that of growing into womanhood, and these girls, nearly women, are on the journey, and so the overlapping letters to create a butterfly is a great logo for them as a group.

𝐍𝐂𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐎 - 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲:

Neo Culture Technology, or NCT’s branding often plays off of the similar pronunciation of their name to “N City.” This ‘city’ can be felt throughout their logo, in the use of imagery. The tall geometric shaped typography is positioned in such a way to create the look of a building, perhaps that of a skyscraper. The use of lower case letters in the typography helps stave off pointy lettering that would disrupt the flow of the blocky shaping. Overall the logo is easy to recognise, easy to read, and easily customisable - all great qualities to have in a logo.

What’s great about the range it can be customised at, is that NCT is a group of great versatility, and having four sub-units, it needs that quality in its logo. This logo can be changed in colour and basic design for each and every comeback as well as each and every sub-unit whilst still remaining ultimately recognisable - the designer/s did amazingly in this aspect.

𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐀 𝐗 - 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦:

Monsta X’s logo uses descriptive form to tell a story, one to match its namesake. When one thinks of the word ‘monster’, one thinks something menacing, sharp teeth, a looming figure - and this is shown in the logo too. This logo uses two of the basic elements of art (shape, form) to create an overall logo with an image that comes with, it’s almost a form of story telling that is put across to the viewer just by looking upon the logo.

You can see this in the tall length of the logo, and the shoulder-like stance of it. It describes itself as a looming, slightly hunched gargoyle in my mind. You can also see this in the sharp edges of the design, the pointed corners that give a menacing mental picture. They almost emulate the teeth of a beast, sharp and pointed as if to rest in a gaping maw.

And last but not least, this logo uses excellent lettering placement to still impress upon the viewer that of the important letters of ‘M’ and ‘X’. The ‘X’ focal point is shrouded by those ‘shoulders’ to create the ‘M’ if you view the logo as a whole, and this is remarkable. You can see the clear designer’s vision in creating this logo, that of the monster, and that of the memorable ‘MX’.

𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍 - 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬:

I must admit, Seventeen is a group that I do not know much about it’s philosophy. So this analysis is from that of an outsider, with that being said, here is my point of view.

The first Seventeen logo is that of the interlocking ‘1’ and ‘7’ with geometric shapes to create a form of an equilateral triangle. Its form is clear, precise, and easy to recognise - something very important in graphic design as well as the promotional world. This is because the viewer needs to easily remember the logo, recognise its elements, and hopefully understand the elements meaning and relation to each other. The ‘1′ and ‘7′ are easily seen but are also beautiful to view as a whole; there is something satisfying about an even geometric shape. This logo plays on that, and adds the unique side of the ‘17′ motif. It is not overcomplicated, as stated before, precision is key.

For their secondary logo, they delve deeper into the space of geometric shapes and the realm of being radically distinctive. They use somewhat paradoxical shapes, they seem to have a clear start and end yet it melds into itself in an eye-catching and unique way. It reminds me of the ‘Penrose Staircase’ popularised by the film ‘Inception.’ This set of paradoxical steps, envelops into itself and has no clear beginning or end, not too dissimilar, yet totally different to the logo in question. I believe this similar imagery depicted in the logo is not too complicated or confusing that one cannot grasp its form, a form not too undistinguishable that it gets lost in the pile of ‘ugly designs.’ The secondary design is beautiful, with a clear precise design. The form is well thought out and still provides that satisfying quality of the primary design. Overall, it is a great logo.

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧:

Thank you so much for reading! This was another self indulgent post lol. I wanted to analyse and appreciate the great work that goes into creating the logos I see every day. They surely are great pieces of art and design, and I hope my thoughts and analysis don’t come across as the wild ravings of a crazy person HDJFHDJ :)) A sincere thank you goes out to everyone who said nice things about my last ‘Graphic Design In K-Pop’ post, that includes those in the tags (I see you!!) and also my wifeys @nakamotocore​ and @mrkcore​ <33333 I’m so glad i can share my passions comfortably with you all hehe, tysm for reading!!!

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That Was the Year That Was – 1936

Monarch – George V (until 20 January), Edward VIII (starting 20 January, until 11 December), George VI (starting 11 December)

Prime Minister – Stanley Baldwin (Coalition)

The abdication crisis

In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second.

The marriage was opposed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth. Religious, legal, political and moral objections were raised. As British monarch, Edward was the nominal head of the Church of England, which did not then allow divorced people to remarry in church if their ex-spouses were still alive. For this reason, it was widely believed that Edward could not marry Simpson and remain on the throne. Simpson was perceived to be politically and socially unsuitable as a prospective queen consort because of her two failed marriages. It was widely assumed by the Establishment that she was driven by love of money or position rather than love for the King. Despite the opposition, Edward declared that he loved Simpson and intended to marry her as soon as her second divorce was finalised.

The widespread unwillingness to accept Simpson as the King’s consort and Edward’s refusal to give her up led to his abdication in December 1936. He was succeeded by his brother George VI. Edward was given the title His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor following his abdication, and he married Simpson the following year. They remained married until his death 35 years later.

Edward VIII – playboy, Nazi sympathiser, the king who abandoned his throne to marry Wallis Simpson: is that all there is left to say about the man who once reigned over the 400 million inhabitants of the British Empire? The truth, I would argue, is more complicated and far more intriguing.

Named Prince of Wales in 1911 on his 16th birthday, shortly after his father George V’s accession to the throne, Edward was an insecure and vulnerable man, caught up in a constant struggle to come to terms with his royal status. In his youth, two formative experiences had deeply influenced his world view. As a junior officer in the First World War he mixed with ordinary men and women and served on the western front, although he was not allowed to fight. The trauma of those years left him with the profound conviction that Britain should never go to war with Germany again, and it was this belief which underlay his support for the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.

Billy Butlin opens his first Butlins holiday camp

Billy Butlin paid just £1.50 in Lock’s Yard, in Bedminster, Bristol for a hoop-la stall in a travelling fair. . . and a multi-million pound fortune was launched.

Born in South Africa in 1899, he came to live in Bristol as a little boy when his mum married a Bristol gas worker. He went to St Mary Redcliffe School for a while before emigrating to Canada.

After World War I service with the Canadian army, he worked his passage across the Atlantic to Liverpool, was paid £5 and walked 160 miles back to Bristol to join the Marshall Hill fair at its Bedminster winter base.

Billy made his hoop-la pedestals the easiest to ‘hoop’, gave out prizes more quickly than anyone . . . and took 10 times the profits of his stunned rivals with their penny-pinching attractions as he triumphantly toured the West Country on the travelling fair circuit.

He went from hoop-la stalls to amusement parks to zoos and, in 1935, to his first holiday camp in Skegness, an idea he’d long since dreamed about after remembering a rotten holiday on the Bristol Channel when he’d been thrown out of his lodgings by a seaside landlady who wouldn’t allow ‘guests’ to stay during the day.

Give the punters a fair deal, a roof over their heads and amusements, and they would flock in just as they had to his Bedminster hoop-la stall. And, of course, it worked.

the speaking clock

Golden girl: Jane Cain was the first voice of the Speaking Clock.

TIM, the original Speaking Clock, was launched 80 years ago on 24 July 1936. Thanks to the fact that in the 1930s you could dial letters as well as numbers, when you dialled T-I-M, the “girl with the golden voice” gave a 24-hour time announcement service every 10 seconds – speaking in clipped received pronunciation, of course.

For example: “At the third stroke, it will be four twenty-four and thirty seconds, precisely” would be followed by three pips. The announcements were automatically co-ordinated with Greenwich Mean Time, and calls cost one penny or two pence from a phone box.

As launch hysteria gripped a nation craving punctuality, the press reported on the big day that “people went to public boxes and paid two pence to listen in. Small crowds pattered round some boxes and the receiver was passed from one hand to another.”

Before the Speaking Clock, people rang the operator and asked her the time by the exchange clock on the wall, but this was imprecise, because the clocks were not synchronised.

The Speaking Clock is the last of several recorded information lines run by BT, now all superseded by the internet. They included a recipe line, a weather line, a financial results line, a bedtime story line, a cricket line, and a football results line.

BT’s Speaking Clock is one of very few left in the world; AT&T switched its one off in 2007. BT’s version still receives 12 million calls a year, almost as many as it did in its first year (13 million) – although these days you dial 1-2-3 rather than TIM.

However, that may not be a completely accurate figure. An office worker, interviewed for a newspaper article in Bristol, confessed that she “phoned the clock several times an hour – not to find out the time, just to look as though I’m working”.

Battle of Cable Street

Cable Street, in the east end of London, has long reflected the city’s diversity. Today it’s home to a large South Asian community, a cycle route to the City for London’s businessmen, and an up-and-coming residential area for young hipsters. In the early 20th century, however, it was home to a large, mainly Jewish community whose stand against prejudice has become famous. Across the street from the train station that connects the East End to the city, a huge painting on the side of the town hall shows a confrontation between local residents and the forces of fascism that happened eighty years ago on Oct.4.

The successful defeat of Nazi sympathizer Oswald Mosley’s march through the East End, known as the Battle of Cable Street, is being commemorated this year by marches, talks and other events in this corner of London. The anniversary is being recognized at a timely moment, after Britain has endured a summer of increased hate crime reports following the EU referendum in Britain, and charges of an anti-Semitism problem in the opposition Labour Party. Coming also as far-right parties are gaining in electoral successes across Europe, it’s a good time to re-examine the forces behind the Battle of Cable Street

“Among the impoverished workers of the East End, the British Union of Fascists (BUF) built their movement in a horseshoe shape around the Jewish community,” says author and historian David Rosenberg, whose relatives owned a stationery shop on Cable Street at the time. Throughout the mid 1930s, the BUF moved closer towards Hitler’s form of fascism with Mosley himself saying that “fascism can and will win Britain”. The British fascists also took on a more vehemently anti-Semitic stance, describing Jews as “rats and vermin from the gutter of Whitechapel”.

On Sunday Oct. 4, 1936, Mosley led his Blackshirt supporters on a march through the East End, following months of BUF meetings and leafleting in the area designed to intimidate Jewish people and break up the East End’s community solidarity. Despite a petition signed by 100,000 people, the British government permitted the march to go ahead and designated 7,000 members of the police force to accompany it. The counter-protest from the Cable Street community involved members from the Jewish and Irish communities, local workers and local Labor and Communist parties, who succeeded in disbanding the BUF march.

Jarrow March

In October 1936, a group 200 men from the north-eastern town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London. They wanted Parliament, and the people in the south, to understand that they were orderly, responsible citizens, but were living in a region where there were many difficulties, and where there was 70 per cent unemployment – leading one of the marchers to describe his home town in those days as ‘…a filthy, dirty, falling down, consumptive area.’

The men were demanding that a steel works be built to bring back jobs to their town, as Palmer’s shipyard in Jarrow had been closed down in the previous year. The yard had been Jarrow’s major source of employment, and the closure compounded the problems of poverty, overcrowding, poor housing and high mortality rates that already beset the town. Ellen Wilkinson, the local MP, later wrote that Jarrow at that time was: ‘… utterly stagnant. There was no work. No one had a job except a few railwaymen, officials, the workers in the co-operative stores, and a few workmen who went out of the town… the plain fact [is] that if people have to live and bear and bring up their children in bad houses on too little food, their resistance to disease is lowered and they die before they should.’

the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire

On November 30, 1936, the Crystal Palace, an iconic structure which had come to epitomise the pomp of the Victorian era, was destroyed by one of the greatest fires ever seen in London.

The 990,000 square foot cast iron and plate glass building was constructed in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851, at the behest of the Queen’s husband Prince Albert. In 1854 it was redesigned and reconstructed on Penge Common, by Sydenham Hill in South East London.

At just after 7pm on the evening of November 30 the Palace’s manager, Sir Henry Buckland, was walking in the grounds of the building when he saw a red glow emanating from it. He found two nightwatchmen trying to douse a fire that had begun in the women’s cloakroom and spread to the central transept.

The blaze took hold with alarming speed as the flames, helped by a strong wind, swept across the Palace’s acres of timber flooring, up into galleries and along glazing bars. The Penge Fire Brigade was not called until nearly 8pm; by that time, the building was an inferno.

Its glow, which was said could be seen across eight counties, proved an attraction for Londoners; an estimated 100,000 made their way to Sydenham Hill to watch the conflagration.

Despite the best efforts of 88 fire appliances and 438 men from four brigades, the building could not be saved, its central transept collapsing with a deafening roar. Buckland told reporters that the magnificent structure would “live in the memories not only of Englishmen, but the whole world”.

K6 red telephone box introduced

The K6 kiosk is identified as Britain’s red Telephone Box; in fact eight kiosk types were introduced by the General Post Office between 1926 and 1983. The K6 was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the coronation of King George V in 1935. Some 60,000 examples were installed across Britain, which is why the K6 has come to represent the red Telephone Box. Over 11,000 K6s remain and they are the most visible examples of the eight kiosk types.

The K6 kiosk was commissioned by the General Post Office in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. The design needed to be suitable for universal use, not repeating the mistakes of earlier kiosks. The K2 and K3 were attractive designs but had proved problematic. The K2 was too large and too expensive; the K3 too brittle. The General Post Office turned again to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, with his triumphant new kiosk appearing in 1936. Some 8,000 kiosks were installed as part of the ‘Jubilee Concession’, allowing towns and villages with a Post Office to apply for a kiosk. A year later under the ‘Tercentenary Concession’ celebrating the Post Office’s 300th anniversary, a further 1,000 kiosks were installed over 12 years for local authorities paying a five year subscription of £4. In 1939 a more vandal-proof Mk II version was introduced. In 1949 the Royal Fine Arts Commission intervened again, and bowing to pressure allowed rural examples to be painted in different colours.

Subsequently kiosks have emerged painted in colours such as green and battleship grey. By 1960 some 60,000 examples existed, but the design was beginning to look old-fashioned. The General Post Office was looking at a modern replacement: the K7.

1936 UK news and events

13 January – GPO Film Unit documentary Night Mail, incorporating poetry by W. H. Auden and music by Benjamin Britten, is premiered at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

20 January – King George V dies at Sandringham House, Norfolk, aged 70. His eldest son, The Prince Edward, Prince of Wales succeeds as King Edward VIII.

21 January – King Edward VIII breaks royal protocol by watching the proclamation of his own accession to the throne from a window of St. James’s Palace, in the company of the still-married Wallis Simpson.

6–16 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and win 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals.

5 March – first test flight of the Supermarine Spitfire.

11 April – Billy Butlin opens his first Butlins holiday camp, Butlins Skegness in Skegness (Ingoldmells), Lincolnshire. It is officially opened by Amy Johnson.

18 April – Ordnance Survey begins the retriangulation of Great Britain with its first triangulation station near Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire.

17 May – barquentine Waterwitch is laid up at Par, Cornwall, the last square rigged ship to trade under sail alone in British ownership.

22 May – J. H. Thomas resigns from politics for leaking Budget proposals.

27 May – the RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.

3 July – Short Empire flying boat makes first flight, from Rochester, Kent.

Fred Perry wins his third successive men’s singles tennis title at The Championships, Wimbledon, the last British player to win this title until 2013. This year he also wins his third U.S. National Championship, the last Grand Slam victory for a British player until 2012, and turns professional.

16 July – George McMahon tries to shoot King Edward VIII during the Trooping the Colour ceremony.

24 July – the General Post Office introduces the speaking clock.

27 July – opening of new swimming pool at Morecambe, claimed to be the largest open-air example in Europe.

28 July – Great Britain wins the 1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge at Wimbledon, the last British victory in what becomes the Davis Cup until 2015.

31 July – Public Health Act empowers local authorities to make byelaws regulating building construction.

1–16 August – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Berlin and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 3 bronze medals.

6 August – an underground explosion at Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery in South Yorkshire kills 58.

26 August – signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty which requires the withdrawal of British troops and recognises Egypt as a sovereign state.

8 September – arson attack on a bombing school building at Penyberth on the Llyn Peninsula as part of the Tân yn Llyn campaign led by Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D.J. Williams of the Welsh nationalist group Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru.

30 September – official opening of Pinewood Studios.

4 October – Battle of Cable Street between Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and anti-fascist demonstrators.

5–31 October – Jarrow March: 207 miners march from Jarrow to London in a protest against unemployment and poverty.

20 October – Prime minister Stanley Baldwin confronts King Edward VIII about his relationship with Wallis Simpson.

27 October – Wallis Simpson divorces Ernest Aldrich Simpson, removing the legal barrier to her marrying Edward VIII.

31 October – Elizabeth Cowell becomes the first female British television presenter making a broadcast from Alexandra Palace.

2 November – BBC launch world’s first regular television service, initially alternating between the 240-line Baird electromechanical and the Marconi-EMI all-electronic 405-line television systems.

6 November – Terence Rattigan’s comedy French Without Tears premieres in London.

12 November – Alan Turing’s paper "On Computable Numbers" is formally presented to the London Mathematical Society, introducing the concept of the "Turing machine".

16 November – King Edward VIII informs Stanley Baldwin of his intention to marry Wallis Simpson. Baldwin responds by informing the King that any woman he married would have to become Queen, and the British public would not accept Wallis Simpson as Queen. The King tells Mr Baldwin that he is prepared to abdicate if the government opposes his marriage.

25 November – the King tells Stanley Baldwin that he would be prepared to conduct a morganatic marriage with Mrs Simpson, which would allow him to carry on as King but not install Mrs Simpson as Queen. Stanley Baldwin informs him that this would not be accepted either (such a thing has never been known in British laws).

27 November – Stanley Baldwin raises the issue of a morganatic marriage in the Cabinet, where it is rejected outright.

30 November – the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire.

December – Henry Hallett Dale wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Otto Loewi "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses".

1 December – Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, makes a speech which inadvertently leads to the abdication crisis becoming public in the British media.

2 December – Stanley Baldwin confirms in a meeting with the King that a morganatic marriage would not be accepted, and in order to marry Mrs Simpson the King would have to abdicate.

9 December – a KLM (Netherlands airline) Douglas DC-2 airliner crashes in Purley shortly after takeoff from Croydon Airport, killing 14 (including Juan de la Cierva and Admiral Arvid Lindman) with just two survivors.

10 December – abdication crisis: the King signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent.

11 December – Parliament passes His Majesty’s Declaration of Abdication Act 1936, providing the legislative authority for the King to abdicate.

The King performs his last act as sovereign by giving royal assent to the Act.

Prince Albert, Duke of York, becomes King, ruling as King George VI.

The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH The Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate. He leaves the country for Austria.

The Oireachtas of the Irish Free State passes the Constitution (Amendment No. 27) Act 1936, removing most powers from the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and the Executive Authority (External Relations) Act 1936 assenting to the abdication and restricting the power of the monarch in relation to Ireland to international affairs.

25 December – Princess Alexandra of Kent, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Kent, is born in London. This will be the last royal birth attended by the Home Secretary.

K6 red telephone box introduced, together with GPO ‘Jubilee concession’ to provide one in every village with a post office.

Peter Jones (department store) in London, designed by William Crabtree, is completed as a pioneering example in the UK of glass curtain wall architecture.

Grant v The Australian Knitting Mills – a landmark case in consumer law.

Sport

1936 was the 43rd season of County Championship cricket in England. Derbyshire won the championship for the first time. India were on tour and England won the Test series 2–0.

The 1935–36 season was the 61st season of competitive football in England. Sunderland AFC won the league, and in doing so they remain the last team to win the English League while wearing striped jerseys. They also equalled the record of six titles won by Aston Villa. It remains the last season that Sunderland would win the title.

Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers were relegated from the 1st Division and therefore became the last two of the founder members of the Football League to lose top flight status for the first time.

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